Re: 1.0.1 doesn't work with SGI1100

[Florin Andrei <florin@xxxxxxx>]

On 11 Sep 2001 11:53:35 +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> On 10 Sep 2001 18:30:04 -0700, 
> Florin Andrei <florin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Looks like XFS-1.0.1 (the installer from the CD-ROM image) doesn't work
> >with SGI 1100 systems (1x or 2xPIII/800, 1x or 2x18GB IDE).
> ><4>Start mounting filesystem: ide0(3,6)
> ><4>Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: ide0(3,6)
> ><4>Start mounting filesystem: ide0(3,65)
> ><4>hdb: timeout waiting for DMA
> ><4>ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14
> 
> Does booting with "ide=nodma" help?

Ah, right. That solves the problem. Thanks a lot.
But why it doesn't work without it anyway?

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Florin Andrei

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